shenanigans
Syllables: she·na·ni·gansUK/ʃɪˈnæn.ɪ.ɡənz/US/ʃəˈnæn.ə.ɡɪnz/
shenanigans noun: mischievous play, especially by children. Also the plural of shenanigan.
Noun
shenanigans pl (normally plural, singular shenanigan)
- Mischievous play, especially by children.
- Shanti and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They’re up to their usual shenanigans.
- Well, I'm not the woman to stand any shenanigans from a child of mine. I could name you dead loads of women that are just completely walked over by their children.1890, Kate Chopin, “Perplexing Things”, in At Fault. A Novel, St. Louis, Mo.: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., →OCLC, page 159
- Synonyms:
- high jinks, hijinks
- Deceitful tricks; trickery; games.
- You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.
- The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans.
- Synonyms:
- dirty tricks, hornswoggling, skulduggery
- Strange, unusual, weird, or wacky occurrences.
- "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on."2009 January 20, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009
Also used as
shenanigans is also the plural of shenanigan.
shenanigans is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of shenanigan.
shenanigans meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shenanigans in Hindi
- शेनिगनिगन्स, शेनानिगन्स
shenanigans in Tamil
- ஷெனானிகன்கள்
shenanigans in Marathi
- शेनिगनिगन्स, शेनानिगन्स
shenanigans in Urdu
- شینیگنز
More languagesFewer languages
- shenanigans in Bengali
- শেনানিগানস
- shenanigans in Telugu
- షెనానిగన్స్, షెనానిగాన్స్
- shenanigans in Malayalam
- ഷെനാനിഗൻസ്, ഷെനാനിഗാനുകൾ
- shenanigans in Kannada
- ಶೆನಾನಿಗನ್ಸ್, ಶೆನಾನಿಗನ್ಗಳು
- shenanigans in Gujarati
- શેનિગનિગન્સ, શેનિગન્સ, શેનીનીગન્સ
- shenanigans in Odia
- ଶେନାନିଗାନ୍ସ
- shenanigans in Nepali
- शेनानिगन्स, शेनिगनिगन्स, शेनानिगनहरू
- shenanigans in Arabic
- أَلَاعِيب ʔalāʕīb
- shenanigans in Malay
- perbuatan nakal, tipu helah
- shenanigans in Indonesian
- keonaran
Examples of shenanigans in a sentence
- And you remember that she is a pal of ours, and you're to act like a gentleman, no shenanigans, or I'll skin you alive!1921, William M. McCoy, “At the Shrine of Faith”, in The Valley of the Sun, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company; published by arrangement...
- Shenanigans like that don't go for long unnoticed.1993, Edward Toman, chapter 9, in Shambles Corner, London: Flamingo, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 125:
- "None of this – the shenanigans wouldn't have occurred."2017 December 13, Courtney Connley, “Meryl Streep on Weinstein: If more women were in leadership ‘the shenanigans wouldn't have occurred’”...
- But that's the sort of thing that can happen when shenanigans infinitely escalate.2020 September 30, CGP Grey, 10:39 from the start, in Supreme Court Shenanigans !!!, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024:
Synonyms of shenanigans
Forms of shenanigans
| singular | shenanigan |
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Origin of shenanigans
From shenanigan + -s.
Words formed from shenanigans
Questions about shenanigans
- What does shenanigans mean?
- Shenanigans means mischievous play, especially by children.
- What is shenanigans in Hindi?
- Shenanigans in Hindi is शेनिगनिगन्स, शेनानिगन्स. See Shenanigans meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use shenanigans in a sentence?
- And you remember that she is a pal of ours, and you're to act like a gentleman, no shenanigans, or I'll skin you alive!
- What part of speech is shenanigans?
- Shenanigans is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shenanigans?
- Shenanigans is pronounced /ʃɪˈnæn.ɪ.ɡənz/ (UK).
Words near shenanigans in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shenanigans (page history and authors); shenanigans (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shenanigans (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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